Russell Meiggs
British ancient historian
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- PhD Ancient History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Russell Meiggs was a British ancient historian. He did extensive research on the Roman port city of Ostia. Early life and education Meiggs was born at Balham, south London, son of William Herrick Meiggs , sometime self-styled "general merchant" declared bankrupt in 1916, and his wife Mary Gertrude . William Meiggs was the son of railroad builder John Gilbert Meiggs , of Chelsea, formerly of New York, USA, younger brother of railroad builder Henry Meiggs; William's sister, Helen, married Sir James Rhoderic Duff McGrigor, 3rd Baronet. The former success of the Meiggs family was diminished by the time Russell Meiggs was born; his grandfather "died almost destitute" after political developments in Argentina ruined a business venture, and William Meiggs, being the fourth son, had to make his own way in the world. He had eloped with Mary to Argentina in 1897, their first child, Helen, being born at Buenos Aires in 1898. The family settled in London, but William left the family, subsequently going to Argentina and elsewhere, with Meiggs "as a child... led to believe his father was dead"; despite William surviving until 1939, "Russell felt no obligation toward him". Mary "brought up her children in poverty", a paternal aunt securing a place for Meiggs at Christ's Hospital; he subsequently went up to Keble College, Oxford, where he took an MA.
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